The moon sets 2:13 a.m. today, rises 3:51
p.m. Thursday. It is three days after the first quarter.

100 years ago today

1912: Early drag racers: "Oscar F.
Rader, of Seventh and Wood streets, reported to the police that an automobile
bearing license tag No. 5900 had passed his store running about 35 miles an
hour. The residents of West Northampton Street
have made numerous protests against the speeding of automobiles on that street,
but their appeals to the police have been in vain. It is a frequent occurrence
for two machines to race out Northampton Street
during the day, but there is even more of it in the evening."

Cooling
off period: A Phillipsburg man "was sentenced to 48 hours in the city jail by
the Mayor this morning. He was charged with intoxication, beating his mother
and breaking the furniture in the house."

50 years ago today

1962: Project projections: "The Lehigh
Valley Chapter Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers discussed
various redevelopment plans for the city of Bethlehem
at Lehigh University.
The discussion concerned the development and status of five redevelopment
projects. They are Monocacy Creek project, the Lehigh Valley Thruway spur
route, the Butler Street
project, the Civic Center
and the Mechanic Street
project. The spur route, designed to provide access between the Thruway and
central Bethlehem, would extend the
route from the traffic circle at the end of the Hill-to-Hill
Bridge to the terminus at the
Thruway."

25 years ago today

1987: Chain reaction: "Lehigh
University broke ground for a new
$3.5 million football stadium, to be named after Murray H. Goodman and built on
the Saucon Valley
campus that also bears his name. More than 200 Lehigh students, faculty and
staff formed a three-mile chain before the groundbreaking ceremony and passed a
football from Taylor Stadium, on the university's main campus on south side Bethlehem,
over the mountain to the site of the new stadium. Taylor Stadium has been the
home of Lehigh football since 1914. The new stadium, expected to be complete
for the 1988-89 athletic season, will hold up to 20,000 people."

Quote of the day

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have
governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable
pity for the suffering of mankind." — Bertrand Russell, English philosopher
(1872-1970).